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Corner View ~ light

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

I'm out and about early in wintertime, and get to watch the day break: light over darkness, each morning unique!

The theme next week is "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" (an American wedding custom) and comes from Debra. 

Happy Corner Viewing! 

Corner View ~ January

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Kelleyn for the theme this week!

As of January this year, there are two teenage boys in this house - and almost two full years into the teenage phase, I can report that so far the worst thing that has happened is the long morning wait for the bathroom: gone are the days when I had to remind the boys once or twice (or three times) to go brush their teeth and wash.  Now I have to ask them once or twice (or three times) to please hurry up, and leave the bathroom!

The theme next week is "light".  Debra, would you please choose a theme for the following week, and email me?  Thanks!

Happy Corner Viewing! 

Corner View ~ black & white

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

I bought a fresh-caught squid from the fishmonger by the beach, cleaned it (it's messy!), managed to carefully remove the ink sacs without making them burst (thank goodness it wasn't messy this time!), and made risotto al nero di seppia, ink-black risotto with white(ish) sauteed squid.  

The theme next week is "January", and comes from Kelleyn. 

Happy Corner Viewing! 

Corner View ~ ring out the old, ring in the new

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Renee for the theme today! (and thanks to Chad for pointing me to Alfred Tennyson's poem Ring Out, Wild Bells)

In the same old clay pots, this year I'll have blue and purple flowers on my window sills again.  (Do you remember the times when plants used to be sold in clay pots?  I'm so glad I kept them all!)

The theme next week is "black & white".  Kelleyn, would you please choose a theme for the following week, and email me?  Thank you!

Happy Corner Viewing! 

Corner View ~ seasonal

I'll be in a different time zone (US Pacific) for the next few weeks, so my Corner View will post several hours later than it normally does.

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Spring flowers awakening.

Summer fruits ripening.

Autumn fog for meditation.

Winter light shining.

This is our last Corner View for the year 2011 - thank you Jane, and all of you Corner Viewers, old and new, for another fabulous year!  Corner View will be back on Wednesday, 11 January 2012 - the theme is "ring out the old, ring in the new", and comes from Renee.  

Looking forward to seeing you here in the New Year.  Warm wishes to you all in each of your different corners of the world!

Corner View ~ lonely-together

I'll be in a different time zone (US Pacific) for the next few weeks, so my Corner View will posts several hours later than it normally does.

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Kristin for the theme today!

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover.  And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

"Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

With a good book in hand to keep me company (like "Gift from the Sea" which I'm reading right now), I don't think I would probably feel lonely for very long, and one of the aspects that we most treasure and enjoy about our days here in the US is the easy access to all sorts of books through the public library.  I can just imagine how much more exploring of different topics, learning, dreaming and pondering we could do if we had lending libraries back home (and how much more space we'd have in our little house, with books we could give back to the library instead of buying and keeping!).

Do you have and use public libraries in your corners of the world?

 

The theme next week is "seasonal" - it will be our last Corner View until the New Year.

Happy corner viewing everyone!

Corner View ~ Youer than You

I'll be in a different time zone (US Pacific) for the next few weeks, so my Corner View will post several hours later than it normally does.

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Susanna for the theme today!

Getting wood from the ancient stone barn back home, or lighting a Duraflame firelog over here - it's still the good ol' me.  Me-er than anyone else on the planet.

The theme next week comes from Kristin, and is "lonely - together".  Renee, would you please choose a theme for the following week, and email me?  Thanks!

Happy corner viewing everyone!

Corner View ~ joy

I'll be in a different time zone (US Pacific) for the next few weeks, so my Corner View will post several hours later than it normally does.

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Karyn for the theme today!

Joy is my kids and their American Granny together - especially, but not only, when they bake (and then eat) chocolate chip cookies and her special jalopeño & cheese bread.

The theme next week comes from Susanna, and is "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You", a quote from Dr Seuss' Happy Birthday to You.

Happy corner viewing everyone!

(to) a different corner ~ Corner View

A word about Corner to Corner - you can check the guidelines and the whereabouts of our circling tenugui at anytime by clicking the "Corner to Corner" tab below my banner on the right.  Because there are forty of us participating, I would ask you to make a real effort to keep the circle going fairly swiftly: ideally no more than a week between receiving your little gift and sending one off to the next person down the list.  That way we'll all have a chance to take part in the not-too-distant future.

Also, Corner to Corner must be a fun way to get us connected in our different and far away corners of the world, not a chore or a burden.  So, if you change your mind about it, just let me know, and I'll remove your name from the list.  And if your turn to receive & send comes up at an inconvenient time, just let me know and I'll move you down the list.

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Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

I cheated a little this week, and chose a theme tailored to our family doings at this moment - there ought to be a few privileges that come with hosting Corner View, right?

We're off to a different corner of the world for a little while, and I'll be traveling and offline for the next few days.  Until then, ciao!

The theme next week is "joy", and comes from Karyn.  Susanna, would you please choose a theme for the following week, and email me?  Thanks! (I'm cheating again here, because Susanna already emailed me - shh!) 

Happy corner viewing everyone!

Corner View ~ where has the time gone?

My olive wood utensils gift-away is open until tomorrow!

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments below, and be sure to visit other participants too.

Thank you so much Theresa for the theme today!

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised in a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days
(Adele, Someone Like You) 

I was driving home with Adele's song playing on the radio, and as it finished I rounded the last curve and drove up the last steep slope, past where the birch tree used to be.  And the thought of that tree plus the words of Adele's song made me travel back in an instant through time and memory.  Back to the young, slender birch tree on the summer day when we first came here 13 years ago with two little boys under two.  Then to the tall, graceful birch tree casting a cool shadow on hot summer days, beneath which I sat on the bench with my neighbor shelling peas and beans, and watching the boys learn to ride their bicycles.  To the old, sick birch tree that gave one last gift of mushrooms before it expired and was cut down (here and here).  To the birch stump where Rebecca now likes to sit to wait for Daddy.

My memory travelled in a flash, from that hazy summer day to this one in the fall, through the cycle of a tree.

The theme next week is "a different corner."

Happy corner viewing everyone!